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:::Thinking about the members of The Sims Wiki community is precisely what motivated the proposal of migration to begin with. It does not seem that Wikia is prepared to have a frank and transparent discussion about the direction of TSW as a part of the Wikia network now, or indeed anytime soon. Their recent activities really are not helping our perceptions of Wikia's intentions. |
:::Thinking about the members of The Sims Wiki community is precisely what motivated the proposal of migration to begin with. It does not seem that Wikia is prepared to have a frank and transparent discussion about the direction of TSW as a part of the Wikia network now, or indeed anytime soon. Their recent activities really are not helping our perceptions of Wikia's intentions. |
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:::It is interesting that you think of FANDOM as a "relatively new company". That's what it feels like, isn't it? Wikia as it is now seems to be an entirely different platform to what it was before the transition to the FANDOM brand. But FANDOM, legally speaking, is the same entity founded in 2004. Its change from network of collaborative databases to a focus on popular culture and entertainment news to me seems to be a diversification of the company's business in an entirely unnecessary attempt to compete in an industry that, before the change, it had nothing to do with. |
:::It is interesting that you think of FANDOM as a "relatively new company". That's what it feels like, isn't it? Wikia as it is now seems to be an entirely different platform to what it was before the transition to the FANDOM brand. But FANDOM, legally speaking, is the same entity founded in 2004. Its change from network of collaborative databases to a focus on popular culture and entertainment news to me seems to be a diversification of the company's business in an entirely unnecessary attempt to compete in an industry that, before the change, it had nothing to do with. |
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:::The change in Wikia's focus means they will no longer be able to pay attention to the needs of its wikis' editors (they'd be too busy managing FANDOM publications). We are seeing this happen, with the indiscriminate, clumsy and careless migration to fandom.com; the lack of updates to MediaWiki; and the introduction of features the userbase neither asked for nor like (Exhibit A: Featured Videos). I believe that Wikia for this reason is no longer the right host for The Sims Wiki, which is why I wholeheartedly support migration. I am open to changing my mind, but the way things are going now, I don't see anything happening on Wikia's part to change my opinion anytime soon. — '''[[User:WikiBuilder1147|<font color="blue">THE TIM TAM</font>]] [[User_talk:WikiBuilder1147|<font color="blue">IS MY</font>]] [[User blog:WikiBuilder1147|<font color="blue">SPIRIT ANIMAL</font>]]''' <sup>([[w:c:sims:User:WikiBuilder1147|TSW]] • [[w:c:althistory:User:WikiBuilder1147|AH]] • [[w:c:mapgame:User:WikiBuilder1147|MGW]] • '''[[Special:Contributions/WikiBuilder1147|<font color="#006400">Contribs</font>]])'''</sup> 16:25, March 18, 2019 (UTC) |
:::The change in Wikia's focus means they will no longer be able to pay attention to the needs of its wikis' editors (they'd be too busy managing FANDOM publications). We are seeing this happen, with the indiscriminate, clumsy and careless migration to fandom.com; the lack of updates to MediaWiki; and the introduction of features the userbase neither asked for nor like (Exhibit A: Featured Videos). I believe that Wikia for this reason is no longer the right host for The Sims Wiki, which is why I wholeheartedly support migration. I am open to changing my mind, but the way things are going now, I don't see anything happening on Wikia's part to change my opinion anytime soon. — '''[[User:WikiBuilder1147|<font color="blue">THE TIM TAM</font>]] [[User_talk:WikiBuilder1147|<font color="blue">IS MY</font>]] [[User blog:WikiBuilder1147|<font color="blue">SPIRIT ANIMAL</font>]]''' <sup>([[w:c:sims:User:WikiBuilder1147|TSW]] • [[w:c:althistory:User:WikiBuilder1147|AH]] • [[w:c:mapgame:User:WikiBuilder1147|MGW]] • '''[[Special:Contributions/WikiBuilder1147|<font color="#006400">Contribs</font>]])'''</sup> 16:25, March 18, 2019 (UTC) |
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:::: Stay tuned. We're very refocused on the core wiki business and we'll be demonstrating that quite a bit in upcoming projects. - [[User:MisterWoodhouse|MisterWoodhouse]] ([[User talk:MisterWoodhouse|talk]]) 16:31, March 18, 2019 (UTC) |
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